Who Do You Think You Are 2025?

Well, I thought he was an ex-President of the USA but he was James and was assassinated in 1881. So not him.

Don’t worry Allira I haven’t either 😀

Oscar-nominated actor Andrew Garfield

I'm ashamed to admit I've never heard of him!

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My son is an actor, though by no means even remotely famous. I keep asking him to get famous just so he can be "done" on Wdytya as my dad's side of the family is very confusing and I would love for my son to know more about the grandad who died many years ago.

We have a famous actor in the family, some of whose family history was researched for WDYTYA but he must have declined to appear. I didn't actually know about him until I started researching ours but then found the link and it was extremely useful and we have linked up with family we never knew about.

Only heard of three Will young Ross kemp and Fred
The rest I ve no idea who they are may have interesting stories though

Thank you TerriBull. Another title to add to the bookpile (or three - see The Guardian review of Freeman's book ... the pantheon of family stories that connect the grandchild to the generation of the grandparents.

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/29/house-of-glass-story-20th-century-jewish-family-hadley-freeman-review

From reading that, I can see the parallels with Garfield's story.

I like Andrew Garfield as an actor, also he grew up in my home town, being Anglo American his accent is prone to float about a bit. His family story was very moving, The christian Polish were hateful towards their Jewish population. That came across in Hadley Freeman's book of her family history, The House of Glass, they couldn't get out of Poland fast enough.

It was.

I think that Andrew Garfield, Aidan Turner (Poldark) and Kelly Jones from The Stereophonics look very alike.

Mishal Husain next week.

Andrew Garfield is the absolute image of my GS, who has a similar speaking style etc.

So of course I had to watch him.

Good wasn’t it😊

Off to a good start with actor Andrew Garfield investigating his Polish ancestry.

A story of two halves. The people of Kielce who did not escape the Nazis and those who did including those who had already left Poland to escape the pogroms.

The Hollywood connections to Władysław Szpilman (The Pianist); Bernard Taper (The Monuments Men) the US army intelligence unit who worked to recover art looted by the Nazis; and Harry (Kupcyk) Cooper, tailor to movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor, was extraordinary.

More on Bernard Taper here:

www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/monuments-men-and-women/bernard-taper?srsltid=AfmBOoqERaz65UmygRm70lz08SIQuEKUv3l10jTQKclD1ghHhtPVTwcQ

My son is an actor, though by no means even remotely famous. I keep asking him to get famous just so he can be "done" on Wdytya as my dad's side of the family is very confusing and I would love for my son to know more about the grandad who died many years ago.

Thanks for this info. I found the last series a little lacklustre but you never know what's going to pop up! I am a fan of Diane Morgan so look forward to that.

No, but thanks, I will borrow that from the library!

Have you read this, Casdon? It's seriously entertaining and interesting.

I like this, the historical background sections where they put the ancestors’ lives into context are always so interesting I think. I know of most of the people, and I’m looking forward to Fred Siriex because somehow he looks like somebody who will have an interesting family background, although I don’t know why.

Thank you. I think WDYTYA is an interesting watch because it includes people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. What their current occupation is isn't actually the main focus for me. I've heard of most of them, two of them my DGodD has worked with, (musical theatre and film).